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    The New Gustav Leonhardt Edition [35CDs] (2022)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    The New Gustav Leonhardt Edition [35CDs] (2022)

    The New Gustav Leonhardt Edition [35CDs] (2022)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 10,60 Gb | Total time: 34:14:27 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190296467714 | Recorded: 1962-1995

    The abundant legacy of Gustav Leonhardt’s recordings for Telefunken’s Das Alte Werk series invites us to follow his trajectory as a performer from the early 1960’s onwards, a time when the new codes of early music had yet to be invented, when their success depended above all on the strength of conviction of the performer. Leonhardt’s was strengthened by dialogue: with a range of partners whose variety defies all preconceived ideas, with ancient instruments or modern copies of all types, with repertoires as diverse as Byrd, Purcell, Rameau, Johann Sebastian but also Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Not forgetting the 1970 Monteverdi LP, which has never been reissued since. The image of a pope of early music isolated in his tower and frozen in a school style does not last long after listening to this historical sum, extended here by the later series of recordings under the Virgin Veritas flag.

    Mahan Esfahani - The Passinge Mesures: Bull, Byrd, Farnaby, Gibbons, Inglot, Tomkins (2018)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Mahan Esfahani - The Passinge Mesures: Bull, Byrd, Farnaby, Gibbons, Inglot, Tomkins (2018)

    Mahan Esfahani - The Passinge Mesures: Bull, Byrd, Farnaby, Gibbons, Inglot, Tomkins (2018)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 77:43 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA68249 | Recorded: 2017

    This sensational recital—featuring some of the greatest keyboard music to emerge from these islands—is the perfect vehicle for Mahan Esfahani’s abundant talents. His accompanying booklet notes are an added bonus, guaranteed to inform, illuminate and provoke by turns.

    Christopher Hogwood - Orlando Gibbons: Keyboard Music (1975) Reissue 2006

    Posted By: Designol
    Christopher Hogwood - Orlando Gibbons: Keyboard Music (1975) Reissue 2006

    Christopher Hogwood - Orlando Gibbons: Keyboard Music (1975) Reissue 2006
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 286 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans included
    Classical, Renaissance | Label: Explore Records | # EXP0006 | Time: 00:53:19

    This is the first CD Release featuring this recording. This recording was first released on Decca's L'Oiseau-Lyre label in 1975. The CD booklet contains notes in English, French and German. Original review: “…an excellent anthology of his keyboard works… an excellent disc by any standards.” - Gramophone Magazine

    Gustav Leonhardt - Fantasias, Pavans & Galliards: Music by Bull, Byrd & Gibbons (1993)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Gustav Leonhardt - Fantasias, Pavans & Galliards: Music by Bull, Byrd & Gibbons (1993)

    Gustav Leonhardt - Fantasias, Pavans & Galliards: Music by Bull, Byrd & Gibbons (1993)
    dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 434 Mb | Total time: 59:47 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Philips | 438 153-2 | Recorded: 1992

    This disc takes us on a whistle-stop tour of English keyboard music in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The fantasy, pavan and galliard were among the most popular forms of their day. The latter two dance movements were often paired together, and sometimes linked thematically. The pavan, wrote Thomas Morley, was ‘a kind of staide musicke, ordained for grave dauncing’, while the briefer galliard serviced ‘a lighter and more stirring kinde of dauncing’. The most attractive examples here are Bull’s charming John Lumley’s Pavan and Galliard and Byrd’s Pavan ‘Ph. Tregian’ & Galliard, its regal pavan among the disc’s high spots.

    Robert King, The King's Consort - The Coronation of King George II (2001)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Robert King, The King's Consort - The Coronation of King George II (2001)

    Robert King, The King's Consort - The Coronation of King George II (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 480 Mb | Total time: 100:47 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67286 | Recorded: 2001

    "Why present just Handel's Coronation Anthems for King George II when you can present the whole Coronation?" seems to be the proposition that underlies this two-disc set, entitled The Coronation of King George II, 1727. And, thrillingly performed by Robert King directing the King's Consort and the Choir of the King's Consort, there seems no good reason not to, and every good reason to, do just that. King, who has led many stirring recordings of Handel's oratorios in his time, turns in splendid performances of the four Coronation Anthems, along with superb performances of ceremonial choral music by Tallis, Purcell, Gibbons, Blow, Farmer, and Child.

    Mishka Rushdie Momen - Reformation: William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, Jan Sweelinck (2024)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Mishka Rushdie Momen - Reformation: William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, Jan Sweelinck (2024)

    Mishka Rushdie Momen - Reformation: William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, Jan Sweelinck (2024)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 220 Mb | Total time: 77:49 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68445 | Recorded: 2023

    Mishka Rushdie Momen makes a highly enjoyable Hyperion debut, playing Renaissance keyboard music on a modern Steinway grand piano, with subtlety of tone and phrasing that brings new perspective to the music of Byrd, Sweelinck, Gibbons and Bull.

    Bob van Asperen - Krieg und Frieden, 1568, 1618, 1648 (1998)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Bob van Asperen - Krieg und Frieden, 1568, 1618, 1648 (1998)

    Bob van Asperen - Krieg und Frieden, 1568, 1618, 1648 (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 503 Mb | Total time: 77:30 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Vox Humana | # vh 1009 | Recorded: 1998

    The Aeolus issue of Bob van Asperen's Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace) is a rather unusual survey in several ways. The central theme of this is tied to the two major conflicts in continental Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 80 Years War and the 30 Years War, both of which were ultimately resolved by the Westphalian Peace Accord of 1648. Generally when we think of the so-called battle pieces of olden times it brings up memories of music that is rather arcane and none too challenging – thundering, repeated major triads with a rolling tremolo in the bass.

    Jean Rondeau - Melancholy Grace (2021)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Jean Rondeau - Melancholy Grace (2021)

    Jean Rondeau - Melancholy Grace (2021)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 468 Mb | Total time: 80:02 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029500899 | Recorded: 2020

    Melancholy Grace is a poetic collection of keyboard music from the 16th and 17th centuries by composers from Italy, the Netherlands, England and Germany, including Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Picchi, Luzzaschi, Sweelinck, Dowland, Bull and Gibbons. The French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has conceived the album as a sombre, but eloquent dialogue between two contrasting voices: melancholy conveyed through chromaticism and melancholy conveyed through the musical expression of tears and weeping. Each voice finds expression through a different instrument: a 16th century Italian virginal (a compact harpsichord) for the ‘tears’ and a modern replica of an 18th century harpsichord for the ‘chromatic’ pieces.

    Pieter-Jan Belder - The Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book [15CDs] (2020)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Pieter-Jan Belder - The Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book [15CDs] (2020)

    Pieter-Jan Belder - The Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book [15CDs] (2020)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 5,96 Gb | Total time: 16:18:38 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 95915 | Recorded: 2010-2018

    This landmark set gathers all seven volumes of Pieter-Jan Belder’s exhaustive exploration of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book in recordings spanning the current decade.

    The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

    Posted By: Designol
    The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

    The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 169 Mb | Artwork included
    Classical, Choral, Renaissance | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68256 | 01:13:06

    The Gesualdo Six literally made its name with performances of Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories, but that's not the British vocal consort's only specialty. Each of the singers was trained in the English choral tradition, and sacred works of the 16th and 17th century are close to their hearts. This 2018 Hyperion release is a brief survey of motets by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, John Sheppard, Robert White, John Dunstaple, Thomas Morley, John Taverner, William Cornysh, Orlando Gibbons, and Robert Parsons, which represent the changing theological and liturgical aspects of English religion in the Renaissance. The ensemble, conducted by Owain Park, sings with evenly blended tones and an extraordinary harmonic richness, notwithstanding the assignment of one voice to a part and the exposed polyphony that sometimes creates an austere effect. Also quite noticeable are the cross-relations that add poignant dissonances to the counterpoint, as in Tallis' Loquebantur variis linguis, Taverner's Quemadmodum, Gibbons' O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not, and Parsons' Deliver me from mine enemies. This album was recorded in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, where The Gesualdo Six gave its first performances, and the sound is enhanced by vibrant acoustics that give the group a radiant aural halo.

    The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell - 'Rejoice, the Lord is king!': Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey (2014)

    Posted By: Designol
    The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell - 'Rejoice, the Lord is king!': Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey (2014)

    'Rejoice, the Lord is king!': Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey (2014)
    Robert Quinney, organ; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; James O'Donnell, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 326 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68013 | Time: 01:08:46

    This 2014 Hyperion collection of 22 hymns sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey is a straightforward presentation of familiar versions for choir and organ. For the most part, the arrangements are conventional four-part settings, with occasional interpolations of seldom-heard harmonizations and descants, and the performances by the men and boys are appropriately reverent and joyous. The majority of selections are hymns of praise, including Praise, my soul, the king of heaven; Thine be the glory; and Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, though Drop, drop slow tears; I bind unto myself today; and Let all mortal flesh keep silence bring a more somber and penitential mood to the program. The recordings were made in late 2012 and early 2013 in Westminster Abbey, so the sound of the album is typically resonant and spacious, and the choir has a well-blended tone, though the trade-off for the glorious acoustics is a loss of clarity in some of the words.

    Robert Woolley, Christopher Robinson, Choir of St. John's College - Orlando Gibbons: Anthems, Complete Organ Works (1994)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Robert Woolley, Christopher Robinson, Choir of St. John's College - Orlando Gibbons: Anthems, Complete Organ Works (1994)

    Robert Woolley, Christopher Robinson, Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge - Orlando Gibbons: Anthems, Complete Organ Works (1994)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 332 Mb | Total time: 78:31 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0559 | Recorded: 1993

    Orlando Gibbons belongs to the generation of English composers which followed that of William Byrd, 40 years his senior, who died in 1623. He was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, where his elder brother was Master of the Choristers, and later became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, which he served as an organist and to which he later added the position of organist at Westminster Abbey. He wrote music for the Church of England, madrigals, consort music and keyboard works.

    Sophie Yates - Elizabethan Virginals Music (2003)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Sophie Yates - Elizabethan Virginals Music (2003)

    Sophie Yates - Elizabethan Virginals Music (2003)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 335 Mb | Total time: 68:04 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0699 | Recorded: 2002

    Sophie Yates finds the right manner far all these works, the small and unassuming, the intricate and emotionally charged. Her sense of rhythmic flexibility is subtle. Her articulation of simultaneous musical strands - no mean feat even in the simplest of works performed on the virginal - is a delight.

    Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600 (2018)

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    Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600 (2018)

    Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600 (2018)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 67:11 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM902298 | Recorded: 2017

    Melancholic poetry provided endless nourishment for musical creativity in the late Renaissance. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les Cris de Paris in music from the cusp of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From Bryd to Gesualdo, Italian and English madrigals rub shoulders with motets and Tenebrae responsories, finding pleasure even in meditating on what causes one's pain.

    Concordia, Mark Levy - Orlando Gibbons: Royal Fantasies (2000)

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    Concordia, Mark Levy - Orlando Gibbons: Royal Fantasies (2000)

    Concordia, Mark Levy - Orlando Gibbons: Royal Fantasies (2000)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:05:11 | 379 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Metronome Recordings | Catalog: MET CD 1033

    There's no more agreeable, melodious, or concordant sound on earth than that of a consort of viols, and Orlando Gibbons' music for these instruments is among the finest ever written. Besides its artful scoring and clever melodic invention, the essence of the music lies in its harmony, which brings sensuousness and emotional expression to a rare peak of refinement.